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This article surveys and analyses the reflections on medical ethics teaching by colleagues teaching in United Kingdom (UK) medical schools in the early 2020s. Participants were recruited mainly by using the worldwide web to identify 64 people from 41 UK medical schools who were thought to contribute to teaching medical ethics based on their internet profiles. Twenty-three people responded. The survey data reveals that many staff are happy with the provision of medical ethics teaching, but also that some are concerned about the quality of provision due to concerns with staff expertise and teaching time. In spite of the fact that the General Medical Council (GMC) and other organisations are perceived to have contributed to raising the profile of medical ethics, there is significant concern with how it is embedded within local UK medical curricula. Some participants contributed hardly or not at all to research in medical ethics, where one attributed this decline in research to the pandemic. Future work will need to address what can be done to improve the provision of medical ethics teaching to address some of these findings and to survey and analyse how perceptions might have changed in light of recent challenges and developments.
Author(s): Deckers J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Ethics Education
Year: 2023
Volume: 8
Pages: 177–194
Print publication date: 01/06/2023
Online publication date: 03/11/2022
Acceptance date: 12/09/2022
Date deposited: 04/11/2022
ISSN (print): 2363-9997
ISSN (electronic): 2364-0006
Publisher: Springer Nature
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-022-00158-2
DOI: 10.1007/s40889-022-00158-2
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